Wishlist part deux
After the musical geekery (I still want a Yamaha XS8 keyboard, and the Wood Stingray SV-4 for an electric violin), here comes literature. Books I want to read, would like to get, and will probably never receive from people. XD
Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal (1861 edition) and Les Epaves -
Come on, who wouldn't want to read a book entitled 'Flowers of Evil?' The second edition - that's the 1861 one - has additional poems from Baudelaire, even as the book loses six poems from its original version due to French censorship. That's where Les Epaves ('The Scraps') comes in - the six censored poems are in the book, as well as a number of new poems.Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as the rest of her books :)
The queen of vindictive poets everywhere (well, not quite), Atwood's poetry is a heady mix of anger, smarm, and sarcasm (sometimes). If you're feeling bitter, chances are she's put your feelings into words more eloquently than you'll ever be able to. Her work is heart-rending literature, and to be able to read all of it would be, as they say, awesome.
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
Tortured writer with mental problems? That, admittedly, is my main reason for wanting to read this book. From what I've heard, it's a thinly-veiled autobiography, and maybe it's just me, but somehow there's nothing more comforting than finding parallel situations and empathetic characters between the pages of a book.
Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises
I've already read The Old Man and the Sea, and while the dialogue was sparse and the descriptions succinct, that doesn't mean the book was any less powerful. Hemingway knows how to hit the reader where it lasts, and he's so brilliant, he doesn't even need a dense paragraph of words to do it. I'm hoping for the same brilliance from these books.
Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, and all his other books too :)
Ah, Nick Joaquin - one of the best Filipino writers in English. Just ask any literature teacher. He wrote the brilliant May Day Eve, and he's one of the standards to which all fledgling writers are compared. I have never read an actual book of his, and him being the master of Philippine literature in English, I'd like to learn from his work.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
I've always wanted to read Dostoevsky's work. To be honest I don't have much of a clue about the content of his books, but I'd still like to read them anyway - surprisingly (maybe), The Brothers Karamazov more than Crime and Punishment.
There are a lot of other books I'd wish for, but. Eh. Wouldn't want this page to get too crowded. XD
MERRY CHRISTMAS WORLD :)
Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal (1861 edition) and Les Epaves -
Come on, who wouldn't want to read a book entitled 'Flowers of Evil?' The second edition - that's the 1861 one - has additional poems from Baudelaire, even as the book loses six poems from its original version due to French censorship. That's where Les Epaves ('The Scraps') comes in - the six censored poems are in the book, as well as a number of new poems.Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as the rest of her books :)
The queen of vindictive poets everywhere (well, not quite), Atwood's poetry is a heady mix of anger, smarm, and sarcasm (sometimes). If you're feeling bitter, chances are she's put your feelings into words more eloquently than you'll ever be able to. Her work is heart-rending literature, and to be able to read all of it would be, as they say, awesome.
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
Tortured writer with mental problems? That, admittedly, is my main reason for wanting to read this book. From what I've heard, it's a thinly-veiled autobiography, and maybe it's just me, but somehow there's nothing more comforting than finding parallel situations and empathetic characters between the pages of a book.
Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises
I've already read The Old Man and the Sea, and while the dialogue was sparse and the descriptions succinct, that doesn't mean the book was any less powerful. Hemingway knows how to hit the reader where it lasts, and he's so brilliant, he doesn't even need a dense paragraph of words to do it. I'm hoping for the same brilliance from these books.
Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, and all his other books too :)
Ah, Nick Joaquin - one of the best Filipino writers in English. Just ask any literature teacher. He wrote the brilliant May Day Eve, and he's one of the standards to which all fledgling writers are compared. I have never read an actual book of his, and him being the master of Philippine literature in English, I'd like to learn from his work.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov
I've always wanted to read Dostoevsky's work. To be honest I don't have much of a clue about the content of his books, but I'd still like to read them anyway - surprisingly (maybe), The Brothers Karamazov more than Crime and Punishment.
There are a lot of other books I'd wish for, but. Eh. Wouldn't want this page to get too crowded. XD
MERRY CHRISTMAS WORLD :)